Comments on: Goods: CLAMP no Kiseki Chess Pieces Chibi

By: ponytale

ponytale — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:03:53 +0000

Lol~ may the force be with you XD

That’s an amazing list of Star Wars RAH you have there… Are they on display or do you keep them in their boxes? I don’t have much space at home, so usually I’ll only take my RAH out for some photo shots and then put them right back

By: ashura

ashura — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:31:56 +0000

I have Darth Maul as well , also Darth Vader ROTS, Sandtrooper, Clonetrooper, Bob Fett, Jango Fett, Stormtrooper and the Dark Stormtrooper.

Yes… the dark side indeed…. lol

By: ponytale

ponytale — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:42:10 +0000

awesome~ :O Who do you have in your collection? Personally, I find Darth Maul the coolest RAH from the Star Wars serires. I may want to get him someday if he is still available.

Like I once heard someone say… the minute you buy your first figure, prepare to walk down the path to the dark side lol XD

By: ashura

ashura — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:40:15 +0000

lol, I am building up my Medicom Star Wars RAH and VCDs so I have no more $$$ to spend on the chess set.

Not to mention the Yamato Macross 1/60 models… *sigh~*

By: ponytale

ponytale — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:51:39 +0000

That’s true… I believe US$200~240 doesn’t cover the original cost of the set + shipping fees from Japan that the seller has to pay for. And the chess board on another ebay listing looks like an additional US$50 + shipping ^^” Anyway, I’ve added the links to the post in case it may help somebody who wants to get the complete set.

Gaaa~ I can buy both Light and L Medicom RAH with that kind of $ XD

By: ashura

ashura — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:45:35 +0000

No worries, I contacted the seller and he/she replied that the price can be negotiated.

A few people have tried to make an offer and he/she said that the price that was offered US$200-240 was laughable.

I guess those people wanted a bargain and not a collector’s set.

I might consider making an offer if there was a chess board included

By: ponytale

ponytale — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:36:59 +0000

Thanks for the info ashura~ it is pricey US$440!? o_O Yup, those king chess pieces are rare and only available for Japan versions Woo~ would be nice to have…

By: ashura

ashura — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:30:26 +0000

There is a complete set selling on ebay for those interested, a bit pricey though. It’s got 2 additional king chess pieces that came in a special display box

By: ponytale

ponytale — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:18:19 +0000

I loved RG Veda and the interesting references to the mythical gods. It was my first CLAMP series.

Tokyo Babylon was kinda heart-wrenching cos I loved Hokuto and Seishirou x Subaru as a couple. I also liked it cos of the onmyoji references. I was traumatised by X the Movie tho’ (How could they do that to Subaru x_x *dies*) and I couldn’t pick up the manga after that. So I’ve never read X manga even after I found out later that the endings for X Movie, manga and TV are all different. ^^” That was years ago. Although I bought the 24 episode X-TV DVDs during the last Christmas sale (probably cos of nostalgia?), I’ve only watched Episode 0: Prologue and stopped there. Cos it hinted at angst all the way. It was too depressing. I’m too stressed with work to deal with that. Also, the “best-friends-turned-enemies” scenario also felt a little tired. Maybe I’m getting a bit too jaded for it. Hmm… come to think of it, Code Geass has a similar scenario LOL~ It wasn’t written by CLAMP although they were engaged to do the character design. Maybe I’m being unfair to them since I’ve not finished watching/read the story. Anyway, during my fandom, I enjoyed their more light-hearted or shorter stories like CLAMP School detectives, Clover, Wish, etc.

I’ve not read the longer running series like Tsubasa and CCS due to time constraints. By that time they came out I was too busy to follow up. There are only that many hours in a day ^^” I also stopped obsessing over anime and manga during that period in my life. I watched only the 1st episode of Tsubasa anime a few months back. Linking the worlds that CLAMP has created together is an intriguing premise, although how the story began was kind of formulaic.

However, I find XXXHoLiC very interesting Stories with mythical and cultural influences always holds an attraction for me, so if I only have time for one series, Tsubasa or XXXHOLiC, I’ll watch the latter first.

$ is important ^^ I don’t fault CLAMP for that, really. We can learn from them! Idealism I believe they had when they started… but now probably not so much an influence in their works.

Yeah, I may reshoot the Ouran chibis when the lighting conditions are better hehe ^^

By: akiyama

akiyama — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:36:36 +0000

Clamp truly burned hole in your wallet.
I’m not their fan, in my opnion stories such as Tsubasa or CCS are pretty boring. RG Veda is quite interesting but thankfully they ended up at volume 10.
Other works such as X, Tokyo babylon are very much related (just like you said) and seems pretty dull and flat.
In the end CLAMP has strong sense of business and able to create fanatism over their works (manga,comics, etc) and merchandises.
Of coz it’s their personal right to do tht but sometimes i just wonder does Clamp have their own idealistic side as others mangaka. It’s like sell, sell, sell and money, money. money.

Yep natural daylight is better..tried tht do couple of times. well, you still caught the details so it’s not a bad picture at all.